Only 50%-60% Of Americans care who will run their country

This year, roughly 120 million people voted out of an estimated 231 million eligible voters.

The ratio of voters to non-voting citizens was roughly the same in 2012, 2008, 2004. Even less in 2000, 1996, 1992.

Our population was highest(Out of the dates mentioned) in 1992 (Yet had the lowest turn out of voters.), and have been steadily decreasing ever
sense.

This means over the past nearly 30 years, only 50-60% of American people have taken the initiative to go out and vote.

What is the other 40-50% doing/thinking?

Could be a number of things:

Not caring about politics at all.
Too lazy to go vote.
Don't like any choice they have.

What do you think about these numbers and what they reflect? I know it is probably naive to expect 100% turn out at the voting polls. But I was
expecting at least 70% to have been voting over the years, instead I find that it's about half, or a little more than half!

I've been debating, paying attention, researching, stressing, worrying... and voting for so many years and SO LITTLE of what I want to see happen has
actually happened.

So... if I was part of the 40-50% that didn't vote.... considering so little of what I want to see happen actually happens... who is the idiot? The
"idiot" that doesn't bother to engage and lives his/her life care-free or me... the "idiot" that spends so much energy trying to
debate/negotiate/change things...?

I sort of feel like the idiot at the moment....

Disclaimer: This message has been brought to you by several glasses of pino grigio

You can be outraged if you want. But ask yourself, should those low life's vote? We all learned what democracy is, and they are obviously apathetic
and don't keep up with current events. Thank them for sitting out.

Well, some fall into categories where voting is irrelevant or not possible...the aged, the infirm, the ill, the ones with work or personal schedule
conflicts, the ones without means, the ones with pressing or unexpected problems in their lives, the ones who don't speak english and feel too
uniformed to make a selection or to understand the process....etc.

20 million people alone in this country have felony records and are largely not permitted to vote.

You can be outraged if you want. But ask yourself, should those low life's vote? We all learned what democracy is, and they are obviously apathetic
and don't keep up with current events. Thank them for sitting out.

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